Evolution 2.0

Joana Xavier is a rising star in the Origin of Life field. She is a researcher at University College London. She recently authored a paper with Stuart Kauffman on autocatalytic networks, which are nature's version of M.C. Escher's hand drawing a hand. We discuss the uneasy relationship between professional scientists and Intelligent Design and then go on to discuss conflicts in academia, science funding, and publishing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The book Evolution 2.0 devotes two pages to the subject of cancer and it wasn't until two years after the book was published that this fact received any attention: It is not possible to understand cancer without an accurate understanding of evolution and vice versa. This has now expanded to five very exciting research projects. This interview traces the history of all of them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Two leading pioneers in the field of cognition discuss the sea change that is underway in consciousness and evolution: Michael Levin is 10 years ahead of multiple fields in biology, producing extraordinary breakthroughs in limb regeneration, cancer, and bioengineering. Donald Hoffman is a champion of a new model that says the cosmos is consciousness first and matter second, not the other way around. The intersection of their ideas promises a universe of new possibilities grounded in testable hypotheses and solid engineering. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why is there evil and suffering? Why is Old Testament Biblegod so mean and nasty? Why doesn't God stop the injustice? Does God even have a right to create an evolutionary universe? Hear Perry's 18-minute talk at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Scientific Association (www.asa3.org), the largest organization of professional scientists who are practicing Christians. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I sat down with John Maddox who has a keen interest in information, computing, biology and evolution. John cuts right to the chase and hammers on the central issues that make biology a non-materialistic science...along with stories of numerous conflicts we've had along the way. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Science describes things by quantifying them - weighing, measuring, and counting - but there is a dimension of being that goes beyond all these things. Science, despite its “objectivity”, is a feature of that subjective world. Anthony O'Hear OBE, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buckingham, UK, discusses his new book Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation and explains why faith, hope, and love make more sense of the human experience and even of science itself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Little do most people know that water appears to have remarkable properties that your middle school science textbooks told you nothing about, including memory and a “fourth phase”. This appears to have deep implications for medicine and biology. Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle and is the author of Muscles and Molecules, Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life and The Fourth Phase of Water. We discuss a mere scandalous run-in with Nature Magazine that resulted in the demise of a certain researcher's career.Links:https://www.pollacklab.org/The Fourth Phase of Water book on Amazon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Richard Jacobs of the Finding Genius Podcast has written a new book called Finding Genius: Understanding Cancer: 30 Questions, 70 Geniuses, 200+ Amazing Insights in which he interviews 70 scientists covering 30 questions about cancer research overlayed with his own personal experience of thyroid cancer. Hint: The cancer treatment ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Beware of donuts and snack machines. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

December 21, 2021, is the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon declaring that cancer was going to be ended by 1976. Many media outlets are celebrating progress when, in fact, the progress isn't all that impressive. Azra Raza, Columbia university oncologist, speaks candidly about her entry into the cancer field at age 24, the years that have passed, and incredibly promising research that has now commenced from the 60,000 tissue samples that she has collected from her patients across 30 years of practice. Here she describes her quest to catch the first cancer cell red-handed as it is forming. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Lennox is an Oxford mathematician who is the author of the new book Cosmic Chemistry. He's written many books about the relationship between science and religion and has debated Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. His new book candidly surveys the current state of evolutionary theory. Notable chapters include reviews of work by Denis Noble and James Shapiro. In this conversation that we had on the Oxford campus, John recounts his history of asking the big questions. LINKS:Cosmic Chemistry on AmazonJohn Lennox's University of Oxford Faculty pageJohn Lennox's Website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In September 2021, a dozen entrepreneurs gathered in Chicago and had a seminal 3-day discussion and commissioning for solving the world's most thorny, intractable issues. Bob Regnerus was there and here we discuss what happens when entrepreneurs shift their focus from creature comforts to curing the most wicked problems of the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It is seldom mentioned that Charles Darwin's Origin of Species failed to deliver what the title promised. The mechanisms in his book only deliver microevolution but not macroevolution. Henry Heng discovered a major puzzle piece in his study of cancer and it's called "Genome Chaos". Rafe Furst, a longtime collaborator of Henry's, joins us in exploring the real mechanism of evolutionary change and the true reasons for sexual reproduction. Rafe wrote a summary of Henry's work here. You can buy Henry's book here. Rafe and Henry are starting a working group to explore evolutionary state-of-the-art breakthroughs and you can join their list by sending an email to genomearchitecturetheory@gmail.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Doru Paul of Cornell University is one of those very rare people who has both treated over 10,000 cancer patients as their doctor and simultaneously holds a kaleidoscopic view of a huge range of research, theories, and literature. Today we talk about the many competing models and their pros and cons. And, finally, he answers the question: “What kind of medical policies would you put in place if you could start your own country from scratch?”.LINKS:Official version: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079610721000419Free version: https://evo2.org/cancer-as-a-form-of-life Credentials: https://weillcornell.org/doru-m-paul-md-phd See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today I don't have a guest, but what I do have is a really excellent PDF submitted to me by aPerry Marshall. Perry, has been a really successful marketer, I've been following him for12 years, he has been doing it for maybe, close to 20 years. He started off teaching GoogleAdWords, Google Pay-Per-Click, and moved on to Facebook advertising, and eventually, I startedhearing from him that he was studying evolutionary biology and I read his book, Evolution 2.0. Itbrought out a lot of super interesting topics in biology that I just didn't know about and it waspart of my inspiration to do the podcast as well and to this day, having done almost 3,000interviews, I credit Perry and Evolution 2.0 for kind of getting me started on the path. So Perrynow has been working on cancer, not directly but he is working on helping to promote a newand what I think is probably a better understanding of cancer and as you know, if you are alistener of this podcast, I am getting close to finishing my book on cancer....https://bit.ly/high-speed-evolutionary-mechanisms-pdfhttps://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1583603/Natural_Code_popular_evolution_books.pdf See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Psychic phenomena have been meticulously documented in hundreds of controlled studies since the 1980s. Mainstream science publications resist acknowledging this but the quality and quantity of evidence is overwhelming. Dean Radin, who has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in Psychology, began discovering this decades ago and founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences. He recently joined forces with eminent scientist Stuart Kauffman to harmonize the observations with quantum theory. In this paper, the two scientists swing for the fences and attempt to unify consciousness, psychic phenomena, and quantum mechanics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01538 Dean and I discuss the implications of this. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are very very few people who can slice through the jargon of molecular biology and explain how cells talk to each other in a way that a high school student can understand. But Jon Lieff has done exactly that and his book, NAME, is a guided tour of a microscopic world that is bursting with life... and stories...This book may change the way you see everything. Jon Lieff's Website: https://jonlieffmd.com/Jon Lieff's Book: The Secret Language of Cellshttps://jonlieffmd.com/book/the-secret-language-of-cells See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A new book by MIT Press stresses the urgency of approaching cancer from new angles. Some are completely new. Others are 100 years old and never given the attention they deserve. Bernhard and I discuss his motivations for taking on this project and how complex systems are much more subtle than we humans prefer to believe. Bernhard Strauss' Book: Rethinking Cancerhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rethinking-cancer See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jenny Davis is a professional athlete from Scotland who found out she had bowel cancer 9 months ago. She tells her very personal story of chemotherapy treatments, introspection, detox, and our broken medical system. https://www.jennydavis.org/ https://meganmacedo.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John Sonmez interviews Perry Marshall and they discuss why it's impossible for computers in their current form to become conscious; how modern mathematics speaks in a new way to age-old questions about free will; the nature of consciousness; the origin of life and the very nature of reality itself. All this is based on Perry's paper “Biology transcends the limits of computation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rich Jacobs indulged his fascination with technology by starting a podcast called Finding Genius. He didn't know that it would end up taking him into hundreds of specialties in science, technology, and medicine. His book titled Finding Genius: Understanding Viruses: 30 Questions, 25 Geniuses, 100 Amazing Insights is a beautifully edited compilation of Q&A from some of the best virus people in the world. Here we explore what Rich discovered about viruses and their experts. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Eric Kuelker Ph.D. R.Psych. discusses reliable but little-known research linking cancer and heart disease to traumatic life events and stress. It turns out that psychotherapy and relationship repair reduces the chances of cancer and factors like marriage extend life more than medical treatments do. This may extend it down to the cellular level.Eric's website is https://psychologicalinjuryindex.com/References:Hughes K, Bellis MA, Hardcastle KA, Sethi D, Butchart A, Mikton C, Jones L, Dunne MP. (2017) The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Public Health. Aug;2(8):e356-e366. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29253477/Roberts AL, Huang T, Koenen KC, Kim Y, Kubzansky LD, Tworoger SS. (2019) Post-traumatic stress disorder is associated with increased risk of ovarian cancer: A prospective and retrospective longitudinal cohort study. Cancer Res. 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Rob Berkley left this earth in December 2019 as a result of cancer. 58. Rob was THE most empathic and warm-hearted individual in the entire marketing space (I'm not exaggerating). When you would sit down with him you would feel his warmth focusing on you like an infrared heat lamp. He was one of my most valuable business advisors. Being trained by him and Victor Cheng was like having Oprah and Stephen Hawking together in the same room.Stormy weather nearly prevented me from making his memorial at Martha's Vineyard, but I managed to snag the boat ride and I'll never forget the December 18 solstice sun streaming through the windows at his somber yet joyful gathering.The other thing I will never forget is meeting his wife Debbie for the first time, right there at his memorial service. I had heard much about her, and she had heard about me, but we had never crossed paths.I approached her in their kitchen and introduced myself. “Perry! I am so delighted to meet you!” She faced me squarely, looked deep into my eyes, and connected, human to human. I instantly felt the jolt of her conviction and aliveness. She wrapped her arms around me, embraced me, and welcomed me as though I were a friend of 25 years. Her energy was so palpable I was momentarily startled.It only makes sense that Rob would marry a woman like Debbie.Today I would like to share Rob's last interview with you: a very candid conversation between Rob, Debbie, and their caregiver and collaborator Meredith, describing humility and courage in the face of a terminal diagnosis. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mark Chenoweth is a theologian with a particular interest in St. Maximus the Confessor (700 AD) and St. Gregory of Nyssa (400 AD) who wrote about life on earth as a goal-directed process as opposed to a series of divine miracles. Their ideas were very much in line with the ancient Greeks who have been greatly under-estimated by modern thinkers. Here we hear Mark's story of being drawn into evolutionary science and what implications this has for modern people. Mark's paper is called "A Maximian Framework for Understanding Evolution".LINK: https://www.academia.edu/45035064/A_Maximian_Framework_for_Understanding_Evolution?email_work_card=view-paperMark's BioMark Chenoweth received his M.Div. and Th.M. from St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and is an adjunct professor at St. John’s University in New York. His articles have been published in scholarly journals such as St. Vladimir’s Quarterly, and he is hoping to soon begin a dissertation on the theology of St. Maximus the Confessor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How does a psychology prof find herself writing a book on cancer evolution?And what does this have to do with the Zombie Apocalypse? Today’sconversation is with Dr. Athena Aktipis from Arizona State University, whohosts the Zombified podcast. We explore the not-so-obvious byproducts thatemerge you change the rules of cooperation and convention-defyingbreakthroughs in cancer treatment.WEBSITE LINKS:Athena’s personal website: http://www.athenaaktipis.org/Zombified podcast: www.Zombified.orgThe Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancerhttps://amzn.to/3caIZzp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sam Devis is a former pastor who experienced a faith deconversion a couple of years ago similar to that of my brother, Bryan. After reading Evolution 2.0, Sam and I got together to discuss my journey from fundamentalism to where I am today. We cover many fascinating aspects from Darwinist Jerry Coyne's outrage to the nature of fundamentalist belief structures to evolution and entrepreneurship to questions about the cosmos and free will. Sam's website is https://linktr.ee/whenbeliefdies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Einstein’s theory of relativity overturned Newtonian physics in the early 1900s. Nevertheless, “Newtonian” thinking has remained firmly entrenched inscience. Certainly, all scientists now agree that at the subatomic level and atnear light speed, quantum physics overtakes Newtonian physics. But thishas had very little effect on biology and has done nothing to overturn the“reductionist” view of science, which says that everything is merely the sumof its parts and all can be modeled by mathematics.Stuart Kauffman and computer scientist Andrea Roli have written a newpaper that proves evolving biology in principle cannot be reduced tocomputation. This is as devastating to materialistic science as Gödel’sIncompleteness Theorem was to mathematics. In fact, it is equivalent -because it shows that evolving organisms embody incompleteness.Induction, not a deduction. And induction cannot come from deduction;therefore biology is not strictly computational.Thus Kauffman and Roli have pulled the rug out from under ultra-traditionalviews of physics. (Not everyone is going to be happy about this.) Here, PerryMarshall and Stuart Kauffman jazz improvise on the vast implications of thisnew, holistic view of the universe.You can read their paper “The World is Not a Theorem” athttps://tinyurl.com/stuartkauffman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today if you’re diagnosed with Stage 3 or Stage 4 cancer, your chances of surviving are no better than if you lived in 1930. But your chances are 100 times better when catch it early.What if you could catch cancer SUPER early - years before any obvious indication of a problem?And what if you could then solve the problem at its roots so it never recurs at all?Azra Raza is an oncologist at Colombia University and author of The First Cell: The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. Here she describes the First Cell Project. This is a collaboration with world class cancer researchers who have discovered how to identify “Giant Cells” that PREDATE and predict the generation of tumors YEARS in advance.You’ll be privy to the incredibly moving story of Andrew, her daughter’s best friend who died of brain cancer at age 24… and the systemic problems that continue to plague the cancer field and repeat the tragedy of Andrew. Here we discuss why only outsiders will solve these problems.WEBSITE LINKS: www.azraraza.com www.firstcellcenter.comBe sure and watch my previous interview with Azra Raza at www.evo2.org/azra - it’s a barn burner and provides important background that gives rich context to this new discussion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is a unique show in the Finding Genius series. Podcast founder and host Richard Jacobs cites Perry Marshall’s ideas as the impetus for starting the Finding Genius podcast.In this discussion, listeners can learn more about why and hear about the Cancer & Evolution Symposium Marshall has helped construct on cancer and evolutionary biology.He explains:What the basic ideas of his book Evolution 2.0 are, namely an argument for a new model for evolution that better fits organisms’ active adaptationsHow cancer is evolution gone wild and why better cancer treatment necessitates adopting this new conception of evolutionWhich topics and speakers appear in the Cancer and Evolution Symposium and a preview of several exciting findings they presented.Perry Marshall is an author and highly influential business consultant with an electrical engineering background. In this discussion, he connects the foundational ideas in Evolution 2.0 with cutting-edge cancer science. Marshall lost his father to cancer at age 17 and has followed the theories behind its treatment ever since. He reminds listeners that common cancer therapy treatment only works routinely with early-stage cancer.Alternatively, he says that when cancer reaches stages 3 and 4, survival chances are not that much better than they were in 1930. Therefore, there must be a lag in how we are addressing serious cancer diagnoses. This lag is connected with a traditional view of passive evolutionary theory rather than theories like that of Professor Henry Heng, who claims evolution is actively engineered by organisms themselves; in addition, they are able to pass those engineered traits to their offspring.Henry Heng was one of the speakers at the Cancer and Evolution Symposium along with Columbia University Medical Center’s Azra Raza and evolutionary theorist James Shapiro from the University of Chicago. Dr. Heng connects this theory of evolution and cancer, noting that treatments like chemo destroy about 98% of the cancer cells while the few remaining develop massive wholesale restructuring of their DNA and are then more equipped to spread and survive. Importantly, this restructuring is active rather than a random accident of mutations.Marshall explains these ideas in more detail and discusses other topics covered by the speakers. He describes the symposium as a world-class collection of cancer and evolutionary theorists coming together to address cancer evolution and disable the cancer treatment lag. The symposium took place October 14th through 16th, 2020.To learn more, see the symposium website: cancerevolution.org. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Perry Marshall was invited to Notre Dame Business School to present at a masters level class on new trends in medicine and biology. This talk canvases a spectrum of issues from COVID- 19, virus evolution and the dark underbelly of cancer research. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Perry Marshall discusses avenues of research that may uncover the mystery of what makes life alive. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In 2019, I interviewed Joel Salatin, advocate of alternate farming. Our conversation prompted me to predict for the decade 2020 - 2029 that laws would be overturned making local food production and distribution a rising economic force. I didn't know then that COVID was about to speed that process up 10X. Here's what's happened since then. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Michael Levin of Tufts University crosses many disciplines: computer science, embryo development, cancer and tumor research; limb regeneration; evolutionary theory and neural networks. If you watch some of Michael's fascinating talks at https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/research/presentations.htm he'll take you down his magical rabbit hole including worms that grow new heads when you cut them in half, tumors that heal themselves and eyes planted on tails that actually work. In this interview, Michael explodes the myth that "we've got it mostly figured out." The truth is closer to 1% understanding and 99% is Dark Matter. Discover Michael's research at https://allencenter.tufts.edu/our-team/michael-levin/ and http://www.drmichaellevin.org. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Azra Raza treated cancer patients for 30 years, but not even the loss of her Oncologist husband could provoke her to write a book. It took the death of her daughter’s dearest 22 year old friend - when suddenly she realized she had to speak up. Here we discuss the one most important thing that The System overlooks - THE PATIENT’S ANGUISH - and speaks out about the state of cancer research in the 21st century. Groupthink, sexism, ignorance of history, and absence of empathy… and no one is in charge.A quarter-trillion dollars later, we’re still carrying out the same punishing treatments we were doling out in the 1970s - where life extensions of six weeks are heralded as "breakthroughs." We discuss the “Cancer Cambrian” and the great black hole that is our grasp of cancer cellular evolution. Finally, witness Azra’s dream of a superior system for detecting and beating cancer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Tour, a renowned nanochemist at Rice University, has been openly critical of Origin Of Life literature for being too optimistic, too sanguine and at times misleading. See this video for example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg When Perry Marshall took part in a discussion on the Unbelievable show with Denis Noble and Lee Cronin, host Justin Brierley mentioned Tour and his criticism. A reaction ensued, which led to Tour and Cronin going head to head on an international radio program and podcast. Here, we re-broadcast the scene that provoked the controversy and the debate that followed. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Addy Pross is a Chemist at Ben Gurion University in Israel. He's author of "What is Life: How Chemistry Becomes Biology" by Oxford University Press. Here we enjoyed a great conversation about his specialty, Systems Chemistry, a new branch of science that enables us to build complex networks of chemical reactions like those found inside of cells. We explore the unanswered questions that continue to perplex scientists of all kinds. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lynn Margulis, who died in 2012, was a piercing luminary in the history of evolutionary theory. She overturned the money changer's tables in the temple of science and infuriated a lot of people. But history has continued to vindicate her. In this interview, she and Conner explore a very different way of thinking about life itself and you’ll hear her brilliant mind and feisty posture.Conner Habib's Patreon: Patreon.com/connerhabib See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

William Miller tells his story of being seduced into evolutionary science by a mysterious female named Sue. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Behe infuriated traditional Darwinists with his concept of irreducible complexity more than 20 years ago. He argues instead for Intelligent Design. But what does ID really mean? Is it a puff of smoke? A perfectly executed pool shot at the start of the Big Bang? External intervention at various points along the way? Intrinsic cellular intelligence? Perry Marshall and Michael Behe discuss where to draw the dotted line. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joel Salatin is a "Christian Libertarian Environmentalist Capitalist Lunatic" who is re-inventing the way food is grown, distributed and consumed. Here we examine how current legislation is based on 1906 technology, and the new culinary entrepreneurship that is expanding as we break the shackles of 19th century "Darwinian" agriculture. Discover Joel at https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Michael Heiser, whose podcast “The Naked Bible” got five million downloads this year, studied Hebrew at the University of Wisconsin and was confronted with a dilemma: How do you reconcile common modern interpretations with the nuances of what the ancient texts actually say? His journey revealed an Unseen Realm that is very different from the assumptions modern people bring to these stories. We had a delightful conversation about implicit assumptions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How is it that good scientific theories can take 200 years to catch on while bad theories hang on for a century...even when empirical evidence that could settle the issue is close at hand? Rich Jacobs of the FutureTech Podcast asked if we could talk about how scientists can better market themselves and this is the conversation that unfolded. {LINK to FutureTech Podcast: https://www.futuretechpodcast.com/} See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What does Jordan Peterson really believe about religion? Is “the Intellectual Dark Web” just another 2018ism? Are archetypes enough to save the next generation? Esther O’Reilly achieved fame in the blog world with her incisive commentary about Jordan Peterson. I caught up with her and we explored the no man’s land between the faith world and the academic world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kevin Freeman, a global financial analyst commissioned by the Pentagon, is one of the world’s leading experts on the issues of Economic Warfare and Financial Terrorism. Here, Kevin and I explore the uses and abuses of AI, algorithms, surveillance technology, and ways foreign governments encroach on people who live in allegedly "free" countries. Website: www.EconomicWarroom.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some science teachers avoid or minimize evolution. Others ram it down their students' throats. Is there another way? Michael Reiss, who is both an evolutionary biologist and ordained priest in the Church of England, explains his method of evolution as a sensitive issue. With the growth of Muslim populations in the UK and Europe, this isn't just an American issue - it's a hot topic everywhere. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sy Garte is author of The Works of His Hands: A Scientist's Journey from Atheism to Faith. He is a PhD biologist who has published over 200 papers and worked as a grant reviewer for the NIH. Here he tells his story of transforming from militant atheism to faith and why science itself rejects materialism. Sy Garte's Website: www.thebookofworks.comTwitter @sygarte See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniel White Hodge confronts racism in America as seen through the eyes of a black man in a mixed race marriage, communication arts professor and hip hop music. Using Charles Darwin’s racism as a jumping off point, we explore the complicated question of race polarization in America. https://www.whitehodge.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What do you think about God when your newborn son dies in your arms? Khaldoun Sweis gives a candid telling of his life’s traumatic moment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“When Perry’s brother quit his missionary job and abandoned Christian faith, this plunged Perry into a deep crisis of questioning everything himself. And he decided to put Christian beliefs on the biggest public anvil he could find and invite the whole world to swing a hammer. This became an email list of two hundred and fifty thousand people, millions of website visitors, seven years in the largest atheist discussion board in the world, and in this talk he describes his journey through the darkness and what was left after the smoke cleared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Why is Old Testament bible god so mean and nasty? Why is nature so ruthless and unforgiving? Where do we get our ideas about a kinder, gentler society? Perry Marshall and Paul Braoudakis take the gloves off. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At the Royal Society in Great Britain on May 31, 2019, Perry Marshall announced the Evolution 2.0 Prize was being doubled to $10M. Present in the room were Denis Noble, Fellow of the Royal Society, Dr. Paul Flather of Oxford, Clive Cookson Science Editor of the Financial Times, Investor Kevin Ham and several other scientists from the UK. Perry and Denis discuss the thinking behind the prize and the conversation includes open Q&A. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Denis Noble, one of the judges for the Evolution 2.0 Prize, discusses in this interview why we can't just put lipstick on a pig - why the public needs to be aware that evolutionary theory has undergone a revolution, and how this affects not only religious and philosophical discussions but policies and actions in medicine economics and politics.This interview was conducted by Ryan Bissett of Chasing Reality. Ryan has a PhD in molecular biology and five years of experience in biotech, but he eventually traded everything to go on a trajectory he could not have imagined. He lived in a van, packed wild food, and even lived as a Hare Krishna monk for five years. His aim now is to understand, "how can I synthesize my scientific training with my newfound narrative of existence?" You can check out his podcast as he interviews thinkers from different field of inquiry about fundamental questions of consciousness and reality, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChz-a9985r_s6n2EeC6zTgg See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.